Glenne Headly Quotes

Tess Trueheart Well, what are you waitin for? A nice, safe desk?

Dick Tracy Tess? You're one in a million.

Kid This is amazing, Tracy! What are you waitin for? Come on, let's go! Come on, Metropolitan Bank! Come on, step on it! You know somethin', Tracy? I kind of like that dame.

Glenn Holland The doctor said that gestures meant...

Iris Holland It's way more than gestures.

Glenn Holland That gestures meant that Cole would never learn how to lip read or to talk!

Iris Holland He can barely talk now, he can't say two or three words!

Glenn Holland The guy is a specialist, Iris!

Iris Holland Ohhh, he's a specialist who thinks that deaf people are retarded and he is not retarded, he is...

Iris Holland Cole!

Glenn Holland What does he...? Give him what he wants!

Iris Holland I don't know what he wants, I don't understand what he's trying to say. Don't you get it? You walk to school every day with all these children who are normal. I can't talk to my son! I don't know what he wants or what he thinks or what he feels. I can't tell him that I love him, I can't tell him who I am. I want to talk to my son! I don't care what it costs, I don't care what the stupid doctor says it's right or wrong. I want to talk to my son!

Freddy Benson I was engaged to a girl back in the States. And we loved to dance... we wanted to be professionals, isn't that silly? And we got an opportunity to compete on television, on Dance USA. So we agreed that if we won, we'd get married. So we went on, and we danced, and we won!

Janet Colgate That's great!

Freddy Benson And in the excitement, we got separated. So I went back to the studio, and there they were. Naked, dancing... and then they stopped, and they made love right there on the dance floor!

Janet Colgate Who was she with?

Freddy Benson ], the host of Dance USA.

Iris Holland Why do you assume that ]'s death would mean nothing to me? Do you think I'm stupid? I know who John Lennon is.

Glenn Holland I never said that he...

Iris Holland I can't read your lips if you don't look at me.

Glenn Holland I never said you were stupid.

Iris Holland You must think so. If you think I don't know who ] are or any music at all. You think I don't care about what it is you do or what you love? You're my father. I know what music is. You could help me to know it better, but - no. You care more about teaching other people than you do about me.

Glenn Holland Iris... What does this mean?

Iris Holland That means "asshole".

Iris Holland Why is everyone else's child more important than yours?

Gertrude Lang Mr. Holland had a profound influence on my life and on a lot of lives I know. But I have a feeling that he considers a great part of his own life misspent. Rumor had it he was always working on this symphony of his. And this was going to make him famous, rich, probably both. But Mr. Holland isn't rich and he isn't famous, at least not outside of our little town. So it might be easy for him to think himself a failure. But he would be wrong, because I think that he's achieved a success far beyond riches and fame. Look around you. There is not a life in this room that you have not touched, and each of us is a better person because of you. We are your symphony Mr. Holland. We are the melodies and the notes of your opus. We are the music of your life.

Iris Holland When you were in high school, did you ever wonder if your teachers went home and got it on at night?

Glenn Holland When I was in high school, my teachers were all priests and nuns.

Iris Holland I had such a crush on Mr. Griffith, he could've taken me home any time.

Glenn Holland Really?

Iris Holland Mhm.

Glenn Holland And who was this Mr. Griffith?

Iris Holland Oh, he was my music teacher.

Janet Colgate Fellas, last year I made 3 million dollars, but your 50 thousand was the most fun. Are you ready? Then let's go get em.